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Other causes of failed PEth test for alcohol abuse?
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I have taken several PEth test through request a test and they are awful! I had to explain to them several time that it is a blood test, as they wanted to test my urine for the PEth test. I haven’t drank in almost 2 years and my levels were 220!!! It’s completely insane. I’m 5’6 and weigh 110 pounds. If my levels were actually that high I wouldn’t be able to function. There is definitely something wrong with the PEth test as I have passed every other test you can possibly take regarding alcohol.
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I completely believe you. These testing folks are like a bad doctor: they think they know everything precisely because they don’t know what they don’t know. It’s a nightmare! Mayo, please help!!!
I do not remember what it was my family member had to tell request-a-test each time (so the people doing the draw could find the test in their computer) but agree they have a lot of problems in actual finding the PETH test in their system as most of their drug/alcohol testing is urine. It confused them nearly every time to do the PETH.
As for their test itself - all I can say is they passed every test at request a test from the blood draw, failed 80%+ at bad facility one using the finger prick LabCorp, and passed 100% of the ones at good facility using LabCorp. I will also advertise the methodology used between the two LabCorp collection places varied in subtle but possibly important ways.
I will take you at truth you failed the blood drawn one at Request-a-Test and should not have. That was not our experience - but we had plenty of experience with the fingerpricks at a specific test facility using LabCorp and false positives.
As I stated in several my other posts - I do not believe the PETH proves you drink. I think it has some false positives for specific things and thus is not accurate in proving you drank. I do think passing a PETH may prove you did not drink. ut that is not what the people sending people down for these tests are looking to do with it... and thus they are miss using it.
What I struggle more with is even if you accept the test as flawed in what it uses to "prove" alcohol use - why is the tests are not consistent in showing the same thing when taken on the same day using different and in cases the same methodology?
I have MS. The enzyme that makes PEth (called PLD) is hyperactive as part of the MS disease process. Maybe your PLD enzyme is hyperactive too?
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On 4 January I had a full work up minus a PEth test and was normal, CDT was normal but GGT was slightly elevated, Doctor had no concerns, 29 January I had an Ethanol blood test that was negative. Now on 7 Feb I had an EtG test that was negative but the PEth that day was 653? I would have had to have been binge drinking everyday in January and then some to have a level that high and would have been positive on at least one ethanol test. 653?!? Shouldn't I be dead?